"First with the most" Forrest / by Robert Selph Henry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, Robert Selph, 1889-1970.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877.

Forrest, Nathan Bedford.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Henry, Robert Selph, 1889- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Clinc, Jimmy Hill (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

558 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1944.

Contents:

A measure of the man

The first forty years : 1821-1861

The first command and the first fight : July 10, 1861 [thru] December 28, 1861

Out of the fall of Fort Donelson : December 28, 1861 [thru] February 16, 1862

Purpose in the midst of panic : February 17, 1862 [thru] March 16, 1862

Battle at the place of peace : March 16, 1862 [thru] May 30, 1862

From Mississippi to Kentucky : June 1,1862 [thru] September 25, 1862

The first West Tennessee campaign : September 25, 1862 [thru] January 3, 1863

Middle Tennessee : thrust and parry : January 3, 1863 [thru] April 10, 1863

The pursuit and capture of Streight : April 10, 1863 [thru] May 5, 1863

Retreat with the Army of Tennessee : May 5, 1863 [thru] July 6, 1863

Victory without fruits : July 6, 1863 [thru] September 20, 1863

To new fields : September 21, 1863 [thru] November 14, 1863

A general finds, and makes, his army : November 15, 1863 [thru] February 12, 1864

Okolona's debut in victory : January 8, 1864 [thru] February 26, 1864

The "occupation" of West Tennessee and Kentucky : February 26, 1864 [thru] April 10, 1864

"Forrest of Fort Pillow" : April 10, 1864 [thru] April 13, 1864

A sword against Sherman's life line : April 14, 1864 [thru] June 9, 1864.

Brice's cross roads : high-water mark of victory : June 10, 1864 [thru] June 13, 1864

Harrisburg : an invasion repelled by victory : June 14, 1864 [thru] July 23, 1864

Memphis : the road that recalled in invading army : July 24, 1864 [thru] August 25, 1864

To Tennessee, too late : August 25, 1864 [thru] October 10, 1864

Amphibious operations, 1864 style : October 10, 1864 [thru] November 13, 1864

Advance : Spring Hill and Franklin : November 14, 1864 [thru] November 30, 1864

The rear guard of retreat from Tennessee : December 1, 1864 [thru] December 28, 1864

The last campaign and surrender : December 29, 1864 [thru] May 9, 1865

The grand wizard of the invisible empire : 1865-1869

The harder war : 1865-1877.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is limited and signed Bedford edition.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is signed by Jimmy Hill Clinc on front pastedown.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note on front pastedown: "Palm W M Reynolds 293 Cannollton Ave Elineveport La.".

Other Format:

Online version: Henry, Robert Selph, 1889- "First with the most" Forrest.

OCLC:

190282